Newsletter Highlights
This is my last edition of AUS Newsletter. Our new Secretary, Karen Martin-Stone, will be the new editor from next month.
Karen is Darwin-based and this gives AUS a new base to expand unicycling in Australia.
After spending an intensive week in Canberra at UniNats with Karen and the NT team, I am confident she will do great things for AUS.
UniNats 2003
Well what more can I say. We were all exhausted at the end, just like we should be after a good Uninats.
We had our ongoing stars like Simon Wells and our new ones like Lauren Johnson, Debbie Hyder and Alex Toms - All setting out a great future for Oz riding.
Our international Tony Melton and Roz Beste added some great flavour to the event and we just about survived some crappy weather in Canberra.
One of the highlights for me was near the finish line of the marathon when the riders was coming in the Kangaroos hopped right across in front of them a great Oz uni adventure.
El President Wayne van Wijk managed his usual good nature and laid back style while the Secretary as usual was in panic mode declaring the world was about to end.
The best news however is the UnInats 2005 will be in Darwin. Gee I am really looking forward to that!
Especially with the Ghan running all the way from Adelaide to Darwin this will be one of the great unicycle adventures ever.
Thanks for all those who sent in photos they were excellent.
Don't forget to buy the December edition of Inside Sport with a special article on Unicycling in Australia. It comes out 17 November 2003.
AUS Board 2003-2005
The new Board is as follows:
- Wayne Van Wijk, President (Qld)
- Debbie Hyder, Vice President (NT)
- Karen Martin-Stone, Secretary (NT)
- Rod Lambert, Treasurer (ACT)
- David Buchanan, Member (ACT)
- Crispin Bailiff, Member (NSW)
- Paddy O'Sullivan, Member (Vic)
Future AUS contact
All future AUS correspondence, until mid 2005, should now go via Karen Martin-Stone.
Good bye. See you in Japan 2004.
Chris Vevers
Former AUS Secretary